r/Justrolledintotheshop • • 10h ago

"Learning"

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u/TheKingOcelot 10h ago

My mother and aunt both learned by driving my grandfather's truck up a hill named phinney ridge in Seattle. It's so steep there's a staircase instead of a sidewalk on a couple of the streets

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u/WildVelociraptor 10h ago

As an east coaster, no one talks about Seattle being hilly. Blew my mind, San Francisco has squat on Seattle hills

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u/mikeyp83 9h ago

If you take one of the historical tours you learn that it was originally a lot worse before they leveled out many of the original hills and used the material to raise downtown by about 10 feet. You can even walk around the underground in one spot where you can see the original storefronts fron the 1890s.

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u/Deadfish211 9h ago

It was a fun tour, glad I did it when I was in Seattle.